Eostropheodonta discumbata Cocks et al. 1970 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae

Full reference: L. R. M. Cocks, C. H. C. Brunton, A. J. Rowell and I. C. Rust. 1970. The first Lower Palaeozoic fauna proved from South Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 125:583-603

Belongs to Eostropheodonta according to L. R. M. Cocks et al. 1970

Sister taxa: Eostropheodonta augusta, Eostropheodonta bublitschenki, Eostropheodonta chilcaensis, Eostropheodonta conradii, Eostropheodonta delicata, Eostropheodonta hirnantensis, Eostropheodonta luna, Eostropheodonta mullochensis, Eostropheodonta multiradiata, Eostropheodonta parvicostellata, Eostropheodonta portfieldensis, Eostropheodonta schmalenseei, Eostropheodonta squamosa, Eostropheodonta tafilaltensis, Eostropheodonta ultrix, Stropheodonta (Eostropheodonta) williamsi, Aphanomena planoconvexa, Aphanomena schmalenseei, Aphanomena urbicola

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shelly Fauna of the Disa Member, Cedarberg Formation, Western Cape Province, which is in a Hirnantian/Rhuddanian marine sandstone/mudstone in the Cedarburg Formation of South Africa

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Shelly Fauna of the Disa Member, Cedarberg Formation, Western Cape Province

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